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by jazzyk 10y ago
I have been in similar roles (Software Architect , CTO) where I had to explain to non-technical, but impatient (or pissed off) people (CEO, VCs) technical concepts and judgement calls. But I knew in advance they were not technical. Also,
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Both the WSJ and The Economist represent interests of the Republican Party elite (WSJ) or the globalist elite (The Economist) I could not believe my eyes when I saw The Economist devoting a full page to Trump's badly-fitting suits
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There is wide-spread consensus that BBC, NPR and NYT are left leaning. But this is not about right/left anymore - the scary fact (and becoming patently obvious to more and more people) is the fact that all "mainstream" medi
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There are enough camps/programs targeted at young girls, that's not the problem. There is no institutional conspiracy to suppress women, the problem is strictly cultural: NONE of my daughter's female friends in high school th
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Bonuses almost never apply to referring freelancers.
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I know plenty of excellent developers who go home at 5pm and quite a few lousy ones who "work really hard"
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>There's just no benefit, except maybe feeding fear against them. There is already enough fear (justified or not). No data -> no diagnosis -> no remedy -> even more tensions, fear/hate, etc.
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>public urination is a sexual offence You think people are idiots and can't distinguish between urination and groping? >And why would it be? What for? A rapist is a rapist, regardless of their nationality In the context of coun
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>It takes serious work by good researchers to compile the data and interpret it Ah, yes. The data need to be "seasonally adjusted" by high priests of the state, so that we, uneducated peons get the "appropriate" messa
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Most of females are into the types of Brad Pitt and David Beckham, who are definitely fit, but thin (Beckham is outright scrawny, Pitt used to be "cut" when he was young, not so much now) So definitely the "left" type.
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The best thing would be to ask overweight people to pay higher health insurance premiums. We would have healthy, good-looking population in no time :-)
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Superstition? Astrology? I think you never took a physics class? Please check the law of conservation of energy[1]. A human being is an isolated system, to lose body mass, you need Energy Used > Energy ingested. We may not measure cal
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Is applying precedence of taking care of the unemployed citizens of the country (who used to pay a lot of taxes when employed)- racist?
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Depends on the area of Web development. "At least 5 years of experience in ReactJS required". Software companies always look for people with the latest fad ^H^H^H skill, which is - almost by definition - in short supply.
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>when the guy working 60 hours and more gets that promotion over you Plenty of people who work hard (whether 40 or 60 hours/week) do not get promoted because they can't or won't spend half of that time on self-promotion .
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No, I am just self-employed (insured through a small-business association) and need to cover the cost increases myself. The reason other people may not see as much, is because their employers eat up most of the increase. Also: From Politico
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Yeah... The BLS lists medical services/commodities inflation rate for 2015 at 4.1%/3.6% respectively [1]. Why did my premium go up 20%, then? Why did most people's premiums go up at least 10% or more? Their methodology just d
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All the while the three major expenses in real-life: 1. health care premiums -up 15%/year, 2. college tuition -up 5-7%/year, 3. real-estate/rentals -up 6-10%/year (varies depending on the market) Nice spin. Get ready for
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There is a big elephant in the room here - the terrible state of high school education in the US. In many (advanced) countries in the world you can be reasonably educated/knowledgeable with a high school diploma - Kant and Hegel (and
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Most colleges require on-campus residence for at least 1 year (usually 2 years)
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You seem to have a chip on your shoulder - I said ancient philosophers, the list of names was not meant to be exhaustive, just a few, to give the reader an idea. Of course one would include Confucius, Buddha, etc in that list. A short pos
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It has a variety of stands with all sorts of food. But the front coffee shop (and I think the only dedicated one) is great.
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Looking at my daughter's textbook at a top-20 college in the US, I was stunned. She took a (core) class in philosophy/psychology. Very little time was spent on classics (ancient philosophers, Kant, Hegel, Freud, etc.) They were
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For me, the only espresso which comes close to the Italian original (I visit southern Europe every year) is served at Eataly (the Flatiron location in Manhattan). I've tried many smaller coffeshops in Manhattan and Boston - often highl
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>Combine that with the fact that most people don't want Trump to win Just to bring you back to planet Earth, all the latest polls show the two major candidates in dead heat.
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One problem could be crime rates - Philadelphia usually ranks in the 10-15 worst metro areas in the country.
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Great, and perhaps slightly under-appreciated software. Works like a charm, simple and reliable.
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If you seriously think that all it takes is one year to become a competent software engineer/developer, sorry , but you have no clue what it means to develop good software. Software development is devilishly complex (as in multi-dimens
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Except that the "high reward" part has been missing in the past several years. Hedge funds have been mostly under-performing (compared to the overall market).
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Agree on Greenspan, but do you really believe that the inflation rate has been 1.7%? Actual inflation is estimated to be anywhere from 3-7%, depending on the source. The Fed, setting interest rates way below the actual inflation, is actuall

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